I haven't read this just-released book yet, although it's already in my gargantuan to-read pile. But I saw this interview on Jezebel with the editor, Megan Daum, that I wanted to share. Like Daum and the writers in this essay collection, the interviewer, Karyn Polewaczyk, is childfree by choice (alt ...

Russia's culture ministry said Monday it fired a theatre director for offending Orthodox believers with a radical staging of a Wagner opera, whose posters showed a crucifixion scene between a naked woman's legs. Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky on Sunday fired Boris Mezdrich, head of state-funded Novosibirsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre, over his interpretation of Richard Wagner's ...

Mattis Manzel: The media attention diminishes, Pussy Riot is still in jail. That is no good.

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We need new ways to go.

We need to come together, not physically - everyone stays at home in front of the computer. But in real time. Ideas sprout like mushrooms in real time, I promise …

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